You haven't hit any dload limit your ISP puts in place have you? Even when you have unlimited broadband most ISP's have a fair usage policy. They may have throttled back your speed if you have been dloading a lot recently. As others have said your ISP is the likely cause so I'd give them a bell and ask them what the crack is.

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It is Bank Holiday Monday today, classed as peak-time to some ISPs, a lot that throttle now also cut back speeds

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'so that everyone can enjoy broadband...blah, blah'

Also as slim says if you have been downloading heavier than usual you will see restrictions in place for a day or two. Check your ISPs webpage, if you see nothing about fair usage and throttling give them a call and rant and rave.

Cable or phone? not sure what you mean by that, bear in mind i am a PC noob lol

I rang sky last week and they were adamint they were sending what we were paying for ( 10 gig boardband ) but from doing speedchecks its clear i am getting f all.

i hardly ever download stuff and yes it takes an eterinity to download anything on the 360 ( 8 hours for dirt 2 lol ).

Right, you are on ADSL, or phone broadband.

You need to phone them again to get them to sort it out,as you are not getting what you are paying for at all. This is way different from a "not close to the exchange" example they might give. You need to tell them it is unreasonably slow and you are considering going elsewhere. That usually gets them to pull their finger out.

From the router to the internet, nothing. From the Computer/console to the router, however, it all depends on distance from the router. If you are next to it, you should have no problems whatsoever. If you are not in the same room, you may well start to lose some speed.

When do you think we'll see the upload revolution? In america, you can get a service from Verizon called FiOS which gives three different services:

15d/5u
25d/15u
50d/20u

All those are in megabits, giving over 1MB/s upload speeds on the two fastest packages.

In the UK we can only get (in general) kb uploads, no matter how fast our downloads are. Also, we have the problem of fair use/limited downloads. I'm lucky being on Sky Unlimited B'band, which is a truly unlimited service (no fair use policy) but as far as I am aware, this is the only one.

Im no more than 3m from the router and moved the box slightly before to get clear line of sight avoiding the victorian thick brick wall.

I thought the article about fibre optic connections was very funny last week, unless you live in a town or city your stuck with a dialup world. On my list to get connected would be Real gas and mains drainage the chances of getting a fibre optic cable are nill. I know we have a main optical cable running through the village but thats a mile away

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Also, does having two computers running off the same wireless connection slow it down much?

I don't believe it would, the only thing you have to look at is how much capacity you are using. if you are using a 54Mb/s router, two computers networking could reach the limit (approx 7MB/s) but that is still unlikely. The actual theoretical maximum slowest wireless speed still outstrips the fastest internet supply as is (but not for long)

This wot am getting to London server and im in Maidstone - upload speeds are terrible, no wonder its a lag-fest when us brits play online.
This is the Maidenhead one......
Ping is quite different. Hmmm